Mysterious Cave

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.46
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.13
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.37
The monsters from the cave have started attacking the humans more and more often. Only you can fix it.

Thanks for: @X-c , @mini_melon , @borisi , @klinchev-andrei
This is my first project on Unity, so sorry if something is bad.(if game isn't working, go on itch.io)
Genres: adventure
Tools: Unity

Comments30

sqqqwer
sqqqwer7 Apr 2025, 23:53
Love the game's vibe! But a checkpoint at bonfires would be nice – it's rough restarting from the very end.
WeirdBitGames
WeirdBitGames7 Apr 2025, 23:55
I love the production value of the intro cutscene and dialogue. The bonfire sound is really atsmopheric too!
bakuzen
bakuzen8 Apr 2025, 00:59
The little bonfire animation has to be my favorite animation that I've seen during this jam so far :) The art and mood is very charming! I agree that checkpoints would've been nice, especially so people can easily see more of the game ^^ Great work to everyone!
Gaspar8 Apr 2025, 08:47
The web version is cropped, and part of the controls is hidden for some reason. However, everything works fine in full-screen mode.

Lovely pixel art and animations. However, the controls feel unresponsive, and upon dying you restart from the very beginning - I expected a bonfire checkpoint system instead.
plidomo
plidomo8 Apr 2025, 09:11
The visuals are really special I think! Nice quick game, I like the additive effect of the pumpkin jumps. Once I got the hang of it I managed to complete it. Good effort!
LDJam user 398665
LDJam user 3986658 Apr 2025, 11:46
Those metal renderings are CRISP *-* Very nice art! And good work for your first project.
Placeholders
Placeholders8 Apr 2025, 13:07
Incredible art and animations! for a first unity project the is insane be proud! congrats :)
OttoBroccoli
OttoBroccoli8 Apr 2025, 13:17
Very good, the game is very enjoyable. As already voted in the comments, I would like to have checkpoints by the campfire, but otherwise it's great. =)
Toupaks8 Apr 2025, 13:53
Pixelart is NEAT
Soul Grinder
Soul Grinder8 Apr 2025, 14:31
Pretty fun hack n slash platformer and the graphics were pretty decent too!
Civ92
Civ928 Apr 2025, 22:23
Enjoyed the game general mood and speed. I am not sure that the goblins were damaging me though, as I finished with my health bar still full, and only could die in spikes ?
Vladimir ins
Vladimir insauthor9 Apr 2025, 03:29
@civ92 You can die from goblins and spikes. Thank you for the comment!
HDVR02
HDVR029 Apr 2025, 15:53
I like how the character sprites are drawn, very nice work. However, the controls aren't very nice, jumping on those trampolines was a bit problematic and the enemies attack when I attack, it feels a bit unfair.
Also I was a bit confused when sitting down at the campfires, and I didn't realize that you have to sit at them for a bit, it seemed a bit illogical. Anyway, good job you did a great job!
Yanzhi
Yanzhi9 Apr 2025, 17:02
visuals are so detailed! really love the art style and the little resting animation by the fire so petite so demure, would appreciate if there were save points so i dont have to go all the way back to the start :
Airgameboys
Airgameboys9 Apr 2025, 17:40
When trying to play it I get this message on itch.io (the embed one doesn't work for me)
GARYglhf
GARYglhf9 Apr 2025, 19:00
It's very beautiful, it went through to the end, It's just super nice to play.
Vladimir ins
Vladimir insauthor9 Apr 2025, 19:50
@airgameboys couldn't tell you the reason as it works well for me. Sorry to see that.
TheGreatCarpet
TheGreatCarpet10 Apr 2025, 16:05
I REAAAALLY loved the visuals — it’s amazing that you managed to draw and animate all of that in just 3 days! Just wow. As for the gameplay, the only downside was the sudden camera shifts — it feels like it would’ve been better if the camera stayed at a fixed distance... Other than that, awesome job!
jscommander
jscommander11 Apr 2025, 10:18
Very decent pixel art graphics! Huge respect. The gameplay is interesting, but it's slightly frustrating to start over from the very beginning after dyingб I expected bonfires to serve as checkpoints. Sometimes goblins kept moving even after dying, which was quite amusing to watch :)
xpoho
xpoho11 Apr 2025, 17:48
Неплохой пиксель-арт ^_^

А вообще - хорошее начало. Желаю дальнейшего развития и вдохновения ^_^
Vladimir ins
Vladimir insauthor11 Apr 2025, 18:09
@xpoho Спасибо огромное, рад что понравилось!
Euler Moises
Euler Moises13 Apr 2025, 03:52
Good graphics and good soundtrack. The character designs are wonderful. I imagine that with more time the visual aspect of the scenario will gain more details and the battles will become more complex.

Good job. Congratulations!
PieRo_PBeS_studio
PieRo_PBeS_studio14 Apr 2025, 06:54
The graphics are magnificent but for me the mouse + keyboard handling is really complicated I don't understand this choice...and despite the campfires I go back to the beginning of the cave...
CircleOfLife
CircleOfLife14 Apr 2025, 14:17
The graphics look incredible. I intuitively figured out how to control, the platforming feels a little weird with the little pumpkin sprite that bounces you and the weird jumping physics. It also seems like the fire is supposed to save progress or heal you, but I still don't understand what it does? I also didn't take any damage from the goblins (maybe I did, but the HP bar didn't change). I'm really glad there's a menu, it's always a big plus for me when I can control the volume of the game and music.
Vladimir ins
Vladimir insauthor14 Apr 2025, 18:17
@piero-pbes-studio I wanted to add gamepad control, but unfortunately we didn't have time to do it. Thanks for your suggestions.
atsh
atsh16 Apr 2025, 18:32
Some of the sprites are really fantastic. I wish hitting enemies will carry more impact though
oeueGHa
oeueGHa18 Apr 2025, 03:46
Animations there are incredible, and like camera's approximation when u are afk, but i didn't get why didn't u add a checkpoint func to bonfire? Camera don't work quite well, cuz in jumping's segments u can't see where u need to jump. And i've found few bugs, first - if u kill goblin in a air, then his sprite will go out of bounds, second - once when i've been killing a goblin his sound were playing several times simultaneously. Gud luck!

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